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Motor Vehicles Act 1949
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33Z Offence by body corporate
(1) A body corporate that facilitates the avoidance of demerit points by
natural persons commits an offence.
(2) A body corporate facilitates the avoidance of demerit points by
natural persons if the body fails, more than twice in a 3 year period,
to identify the driver of a vehicle, under the control of the body
corporate, involved in the commission of a demerit points offence
detected by a traffic infringement detection device.
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(3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against
subsection (1) if the body corporate:
(a) had taken all reasonable steps to ensure it would be in a
position to identify the driver of a vehicle under its control
should a demerit points offence be committed; and
(b) failed to identify the driver in the relevant instance because of
exceptional circumstances.